Blowing air conditioning, eating popsicles and drinking iced coke are the days that everyone yearns for this summer, but this is not the healthiest life. It is just an iced drink, which may be more harmful to health than hot weather. Friends who live in Lingnan area in particular may have been taught from an early age that "it is better to drink hot tea than cold drinks in summer". But when you feel hot, you must cool down. Why is it unhealthy to drink iced drinks?
Summer is unbearable, but it is not unbearable. On the contrary, in summer, our bodies are actually cold, especially in the south, and there is a lot of moisture in our bodies, which makes it easier to aggravate the cold. When we take a big mouthful of "falling ice" with satisfaction, we only satisfy the short-term coolness, but we don't really dispel the summer heat. On the contrary, it deepens the cold, easily damages the spleen and stomach, and leads to loss of body yang. In fact, the best way to cool off the summer heat is to drink some summer health tea, open the pores of the whole body, and let all the summer heat accumulated in the body evaporate!
Among many kinds of tea, green tea has the best effects of clearing away heat, relieving summer heat and eliminating dampness, and also has the effect of strengthening the spleen and stomach, which can effectively regulate the digestive function of the intestine. Many people don't like the faint bitterness of green tea, and sometimes they can't taste the sweetness after eating. It doesn't matter, as long as we add delicious fruit and sweet honey to green tea, we can not only keep the effect of relieving summer heat, but also enjoy sweetness!
Honey fruit tea
Ingredients: a pinch of green tea, two teaspoons of honey, a large piece of grapefruit peel, a piece of grapefruit pulp, a lemon and five kumquat.
1, brew the green tea with a small pot of boiling water for later use; Green tea is a major category of tea. You can choose melon slices, Maojian tea and Biluochun tea.
2. Slice pomelo peel into filaments, slice lemon, cut kumquat in half, and cook in 1.5 liter of water for 20 minutes;
3. Drain the boiling water, pour out the pulp, mix it with the tea leaves, add honey, stir it evenly, and let it stand to about 60 degrees before drinking.
The most common symptom in summer is getting angry. In fact, the external heat enters our body, leading to a series of metabolic and endocrine disorders. Although it is really annoying to get angry in summer, the solution to this problem is simple: just drink some heat-clearing drinks from time to time to dispel the heat in the body. The secret tea for clearing heat in summer is Sanhua tea.
Sanhuacha
Ingredients: a small portion of scented tea, 5-7 chrysanthemums, a small portion of honeysuckle, and a small piece of rock sugar.
1, Flos Lonicerae and Flos Chrysanthemi are quickly washed with clear water and put into the teapot together with scented tea for later use;
There are many kinds of scented tea, such as jasmine tea and osmanthus tea. , you can choose according to your personal taste;
3. Brew all the materials with boiling water, add rock sugar and let stand. After the crystal sugar melts, stir well. It is best to drink at a temperature of about 55 degrees.
In summer, besides getting angry, there is another thing that bothers us, that is, we have a bad appetite and don't want to eat. Many friends regard this as a great help to lose weight in summer, but don't think so! In summer, our body metabolizes faster and needs more nutrition than other seasons. If we don't eat well, it will easily lead to malnutrition and weakness, so hurry to have some sour plum tea to relieve the summer heat and appetize!
Sour plum tea
Ingredients: ebony 15, hawthorn 10, a little licorice, a handful of osmanthus, a handful of oolong tea, and two small pieces of rock sugar.
1, the ebony is soaked and cut into pieces, the hawthorn is cut into small pieces, and 1.5 liters of water is added to cook with licorice for 30 minutes, during which osmanthus is sprinkled;
2. Taste whether the soup has bitterness during the boiling process. If it has bitterness, you can add some rock sugar appropriately;
3. After boiling, drain, brew oolong tea with soup, add rock sugar, and put it in a refrigerator to cool to below room temperature before drinking.
Since ancient times, people in China have had the habit of drinking tea in summer. The ancients described it this way: After drinking tea soup, people immediately felt that their pores were swollen, and the cool breeze was Xu Lai, and the wind was born under their armpits, floating like a fairy. Come and try such a romantic and healthy way to cool off in summer!